Exclusive: In a series of early morning tweets, President Donald Trump announced – seemingly out of nowhere – a new policy banning Transgender people from the US military. The only reason given being the military ‘cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption’ transgender people entail. Nice. So what does it mean? And what toll will it take on the 15,000 trans people currently serving in the US military? Cate McGregor was a Group Captain of the Australian Defence Force, and the highest ranking trans military officer in Australia. And she says she saw it coming.
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